England’s radical history stretches back centuries, from Wat Tyler, John Ball and the Peasants Revolt in 1381, to the Diggers in 1659, the Chartist movement of the 19th Century right up to the trade union and communist movements of our time. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their most important works while living and working in and as part of England and Britain’s growing socialist and trade union movement.
Ever since our foundation, England has provided legendary communists in the ranks of our Party such as Harry Pollitt, Jessie Eden, Mark Ashton, Dorothy Kuya and countless others.
English Communists have been at the heart of all of the struggles of working people in Britain for more than a century from the General Strike, the struggle against fascism, the industrial battles of the 1970s and the fights against New Labour and the Tories of recent decades.
Today England’s Communists are active on every front in the fight for jobs, housing and public services in our communities and in the struggle for socialism and working class state power across Britain.
Where our members and local branches in Scotland and Wales are represented and organised by national Scottish and Welsh Congresses and Committees, our comrades in England are organised in Districts which hold their own Congresses and elect their own Committees.
The current English Party Districts are: Eastern, London, Midlands Northern, North West, Southern, South West and Yorkshire.
This District model allows our Party to organise most effectively according to the local conditions and areas of struggle, celebrate and champion regional identities and traditions, and is in line with our policy of progressive federalism which calls for the regions of England to have economic, legislative and financial powers to protect and develop the interests of working people.
For more information about how to contact the Districts Committees, access the Members Area.
